Sun-Managers Summary of Charter and Rules
Last updated: 10 April 2002
This message is a summary of the sun-managers charter and rules. Failure to
adhere to these guidelines may result in severe chastisement by the list
maintainers and other list participants.
1: This list is NOT moderated! Every message that is sent to the list
will be passed on to every member of the list.
2: Requests to have addresses added or removed from the list should NOT
be sent to the entire list. Instead, addresses should be added
or removed via the web page at http://www.sunmanagers.org
Similarly, test messages of any sort should not be sent to the list.
3: This list is intended to be a quick-turnaround trouble shooting aid
for those who administer and manage Sun systems. Its primary purpose
is to provide the Sun manager with a quick source of information for
system management problems that are of a time-critical nature.
4: All responses are to be mailed back to the questioner and are NOT to be
sent to the entire list. Any response to a list message sent to the
list, rather than to the person asking the question, will be deleted
without notice. The person who originally asked the question has the
responsibility of summarizing the answers and sending the entire
summary back to the list. When a summary is sent back to the list,
the word "SUMMARY" should be the first word of the "Subject" line.
5: Discussions on ANY topic are not allowed and will not be tolerated.
If you want to discuss something, take it to the appropriate Sun
newsgroup.
6: If it is not specifically related to Sun system management, then it
does NOT belong on this list. Requests for vendor recommendations
are tolerated, provided that the hardware in question is something that
system managers normally purchase.
7: Commercial Advertising of any sort on the list is strictly prohibited.
8: Postings about employment, either employment sought or offered, are not
permitted on this list. Please use a more appropriate forum, e.g. one
of the newsgroups in the misc.jobs USENET hierarchy.
9: Requests for software (free or otherwise) should be limited to
software that is directly related to Sun SYSTEM MANAGEMENT ONLY.
10: Read the appropriate manuals BEFORE posting, including the "Read
This First" documents. Oftentimes the manuals contain answers for
common problems.
11: When including a traceback from a system panic, make sure that it is
a symbolic traceback. Numeric tracebacks (the ones included as part
of the panic message) are not helpful; don't bother sending them to
the list.
12: A posting to sunmanagers is not a general invitation to email the
poster -- if you wish to send email to a sunmanagers poster, the email
you send should be related to the posting, else it will be unsolicited
email and may be treated like any other unsolicited email (e.g. spam).
Sunmanagers is not to be used to collect email addresses of people who
manage Sun systems. Those who do this not only violate the list's
policy, but risk seriously offending the very people they are
attempting to reach.
13: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE...Think before you send a message! Ask yourself
"is this really appropriate?" There are enough other newsgroups
and mailing lists around to cover the marginal topics. Perhaps there
is another forum that is more appropriate? Check the list of Sun
specific newsgroups included in the FAQ. Perhaps your message would
be more appropriate there?
Failure to adhere to these guidelines may result in severe chastisement by
the list participants. Not only will you succeed in looking like a careless
fool, and in making Sun Systems Managers all over the world annoyed at your
incompetence, you may end up damaging your professional reputation.